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    160 . MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION FOB WOMEN...

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    _^ Executive Committee * Stacy B . _CoilxinsMes . W . H . _Httssey

    , , Mrs . H . Batlis _, De . E . Blackwell . _,, R . CAMPBEZil / ,

    Finance Committee . Stacy B . Co : l : lins Richard H . _Bowne , Robebt Hatdoce .

    -Attending Physicians . De . Elizabeth _Biackwell , Dr . Etciiy _BiLAcrcwEiiL .

    Consulting Physicians . Dr . _"William Paekek , * De . Geo . _Cammann ,

    „ B ,. S . Kissam , „ John Watson . Tlie following- are the objects of tlie Institution , as expressed

    in the Act of Incorporation , obtained in 1854 : — I . To provide medical and surgical assistance for the poor , and

    especially to give to poor women the opportunity of _consulting physicians II . To afford of their facilities own sex for . the practical study of medicine by

    women . III . To train an efficient body of nurses for the service of the

    communit The Institution y . was commenced as a Dispensary , at No . 207 , East

    7 th Street . On May 1 st , 1857 , it was removed to its present location , No . 64 , Bleecker Street , when the House Department was

    opened . During the present year about three thousand seven hundred patients have received medical aid .

    Hitherto the Infirmary has been entirely supported by yearly secure subscrip foundation tions ; but . the They Trustees believe now the wi permanence sh to place of it this upon the a more only

    Institution in the country attempting to carry out either of the important For this purpose objects it ab is ove _XDroposed named , to to raise be of the lied value sum to the to of the fift community y thousand of the .

    In dollars stitution , of , which while the the princi interest pal will is invested be app as the commencement support of a permanent The following fund gentlemen for its endowment are appointed . a Committee to obtain

    subscriptions to the fund : — _Merritt Stacy B . Trimble Collins , Esq Esq . . Richard Simeon Draper H . Manning , Esq . , Esq .

    , Robert Haydock , Esq . Charms B . Tatiiam , Esq . All who are interested in the objects of the Institution are

    invited to subscribe to the fund ,

    160 . Medicine As A Profession Fob Women...

    160 . MEDICINE AS A _PROFESSION FOB WOMEN ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/16/